This world is full of weird people, but I will specifically zoom in on one specie of weirdoes. I know many students work part time to gain extra income or plainly to support themselves because of the financial problems in their family. So they come to my company seeking a job, we will tell them that payment to them will only come 2 months after they have work, so theoretically if you work in the month of Sept, our month will only arrive on December, and subsequently you will receive your last 2 month pay.

Yes I know, 2 months is super long for many people who eagerly need the money, but rules are rules, you should not accept the job knowing the criteria and the negative point about it. After agreeing to the terms and condition and start to work for this company, you regretted the decision as the job is too tedious for your loser self. You start calling the in charge and bombarding them with hell loads of questions about when is my last month pay? We move back to the previous paragraph about me stating that the promoter will only receive their pay 2 months later. So what are these people talking about? (where is my last month pay) Either they are really foolish or they wanna make life difficult for everyone.

I have nothing to do with the finance and payment issues, but I try my best to help my colleagues. But I have been receiving calls from parents of these promoters who really couldn’t count. The dialogue goes like this,

Parent: “when is my daughter’s pay coming? You know we wanted so long already, what are you all doing?”

Me: “Madam, sorry to hear about it but would you provide me details about your daughter because I’m new here and which month did she worked?”

Parent: “Her name is Katherine, she worked on 27th and 28th of July, and we waited more than 60 days already.”

Me: “Sorry madam, July’s pay is not ready yet, we only do pay roll at the end of each month, so from 1st Sept to now (2nd Oct) it is only 31 days.”

Parent: “huh? Where have like this one? Since she work that week, count that week la. I’m going to get my lawyer to write a letter to MOM (Ministry of Manpower) or I’m going down to your company and complain.”

Me: “(Starting to get pissed) Madam, I assume you are working too, and you should know that pay roll is only conducted at the end of every month so as to ensure the accounts will be correct. I really hope this issue can be solved privately and I request for your patience.

See? 31 days and they said more than 60 days? Are they illiterate or don’t have enough fingers to count? And lawyer consultation is not free or cheap, when people really have a lawyer as back up, they won’t abuse it like these weirdoes.